As an elected official, it’s my job to connect to my constituents. There are always mailers, signs in the yard, and good old fashioned phone calls, but in today’s world, we have Facebook, Twitter, blogs and many other similar websites and tools. The increased use of social media in our constantly connected world has presented certain challenges for local officials,…

The Fed had bailed out Bear Stearns and mortgage giants Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, but the decision of the Treasury Secretary and the Fed to allow Lehman Brothers to fail, had trickled down to Main Street. Their theory that NO company was too big to fail, had in fact, FAILED. Seeing the financial abyss,…

Throughout our nation, far too many communities have experienced a history of social exclusion and economic isolation. Limited private capital investments, restricted markets and high risks have led to an inadequate economic base and infrastructure, unstable incomes and low savings. Today, however, to support community transformation, citizens can add new tools to their arsenal: social…

(Editor’s Note: We will be focusing a large portion of Monday’s Town Hall Meeting on exploring how social media can contribute to job growth. These ideas will then be formally submitted to the White House through the current call to action on this topic from the Obama administration.) In a mere three years, Twitter has…

“Collective Intelligence (CI) is the capacity of human collectives to engage in intellectual cooperation in order to create, innovate, and invent.” – Pierre Levy + James Surowiecki + Mark Tovey In November I wrote how we communicate and how these communications seem to form “a life of their own” in terms of reach and influence. Now…

The other day I came across a blog post in OhMyGov! titled “10 Rules for being a good government Twitterer.” The author, Jenifer Reinhardt offered this observation: A number of federal agencies and businesses are taking advantage of [Twitter] to get their information to the public in a hip and cutting-edge way, giving them access…

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